New meanings about “Brazil Great Power”: a discursive analysis of Medici's foreign policy (1969 – 1974)

The objective is to analyze, through discourse, the construction of the image - internal and external - of the “Brazil Great Power” Project and how this image was transmitted and used by political and diplomatic means to project the country as a Power. The 102 speeches by Médici were previously anal...

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Autores: Mallmann, Vinícius Henrique, Silva, André Luiz Reis da
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Conjuntura Austral
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/127174
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/ConjunturaAustral/article/view/127174
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Brazil Great Power
Discourse analysis
Médici Government
Military dictatorship
Foreign Policy
Brasil Grande Potência
Análise do Discurso
Governo Médici
Ditadura Militar
Política Externa
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Sumario:The objective is to analyze, through discourse, the construction of the image - internal and external - of the “Brazil Great Power” Project and how this image was transmitted and used by political and diplomatic means to project the country as a Power. The 102 speeches by Médici were previously analyzed, as well as the 4 speeches given by Chancellor Mário Gibson Barbosa to the UN during his term. From Médici's speeches, those that best represented the government's actions and its dialogue with the “Brazil Great Power Project” were selected in which the keyword “development” was identified. Such speeches were contrasted with the existing bibliography (articles, books, official and press documents). After the selection, the Discourse Analysis theory was applied in order to outline how the discursive process of this project was carried out. It's concluded that the “Brazil Great Power” Project encountered obstacles in the international sphere (materialized in the critique of maintenance of the status quo) in the search for development, which generated the adaptation in the discourse. There was also a discursive dichotomy of projecting the image of the country: internally, it was treated as a Great Power; externally, as an intermediate country or a Middle Power.